Bagnara di Romagna (RA) - Parish of SS Giovanni and Andrea - One of the most beautiful villages in Italy - Emilia Romagna
- Tuttitaly
- Oct 6, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 6
It represents, throughout the Romagna plain, a rare example of a fully preserved Medieval Castrum. Many scholars consider its keep to be one of the best 15th-century fortification works of art in Italy... #tuttitaly
Bagnara di Romagna is located in the green Ravenna plain, along the Stradelli Guelfi, the parallel route to the Via Emilia, which in the past connected various castles, churches, and noble residences from Bologna to the Adriatic Sea.
Bagnara di Romagna, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, is a rare example of a fully preserved medieval Castrum. The entire defensive system, which includes the Rocca Sforzesca, the boundary wall, and the moat, is still evident today.
What to visit
The Rocca Sforzesca can be visited all year round. In addition to the keep, elements of considerable interest, characteristic of the "beautiful sixteenth-century style": the central courtyard with a Renaissance appearance, interior rooms with the original wooden ceilings, the iron supports of the drawbridge, the loggias, the reserve well of water and the spiral staircase formed by 78 superimposed sandstone monoliths.
The Rocca houses the Castle Museum, whose archaeological section, some finds illustrate the village's history from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages.
Almost opposite the Rocca, the Archpriest Church of Santi Giovanni e Andrea, from the 15th century, preserves the "Madonna del Pubblico Voto" in terracotta.
In the church, two museums: the Parochial Museum of
Sacred Art preserves a precious sixteenth-century altarpiece, "Madonna and Saints" by Innocenzo da Imola, a wooden crucifix from the school of Donatello and a collection of devotional ceramics; the Pietro Mascagni Museum is made up of memories and relics of the composer from Livorno, donated to the city by the local chorister Anna Lolli.
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